Mohoric, but also Nibali, Pidcock, Sagan and the historic Konyshev at the top of the descents
It has never been superimposed on the screen, but When faced with certain descents of certain cyclists, it would be advisable to indicate: “It is better not to do it at home.”.
We have already talked about good descents here, about descents that left us twisted on the couch, but I wanted to talk about people and not circumstances, and in this list of five that I already anticipate in the subtitle I talk about the ones that I remember best, but be careful, not the best ever.
Matej Mohoric, there is no fear for cyclists on the downhills
To understand Mohoric’s descent in the San Remo that he ended up winning, I think you have to go back to the previous Giro, when he left the race halfway due to that fall with a caper that also included a descent.
His approach to that descent from the Poggio falls into the category of recklessness, true, it now transpires that he had some hospitals located in the area, but let’s not lose sight of the execution and, above all, the rectifications he proposes during the descent.
That day was a big gate or full-fledged infirmary, it makes me laugh when I read people saying that Mohoric is the best descender in history, I’m not saying it’s bad, but that day he was about to kill himself several times, nothing to do with the finesse of Nibali or Savoldelli.
— Miguel Cancela (@Camenzind80) November 29, 2023
Even Pogacar said that he didn’t play that.
It was not the most technical descent, nor even elegant, but it went down in memory for its success and the violence that it knew how to capitalize on in victory.
Peter Sagan, among the most incredible cycling descents
I already mentioned once that trip to Gap with my friend Peter in the impossible hunt for Rubén Plaza.
Without a doubt one of his greatest moments, but also the descents of the Poggio that never ended in victory or those of Flanders chasing or escaping, Sagan is a technical prodigy on the bicycle who has transferred that art to downhillwith Mohoric-type rectifications, negotiating curves almost at right angles, demanding from the machine what only geniuses are capable of asking of it.
Nibali, the knife in the butter
The first big descent I remember from Nibali was with Lance Armstrong in the 2009 Tour.
Since then the Italian has been a sustained symphony on the bike every time a descent knocked at the door.
There are also two very distant, but illustrative, in the fantastic Giro 2010, in Monte Giovo and in Mortiolo, unfortunately for David Arroyo.
That day Nibali’s lines earned Ivan Basso the second Giro.
Although be careful, Among Nibali’s great disappointments, that descent in Rio de JaneiroAt the olympic games.
That was extremely painful, because for a moment I thought that Rafal Majka could end up with the gold hanging around his neck in the most stingy way I know.
Thank goodness Van Avermaet appeared…
Dimitri Konyshev, the classic
To the then Soviet, cycling undoubtedly blessed him with infinite knowledge on the bicycle.
He did everything well, even in some training, when he was already a director and already retired, he took the colors of one of his cyclists.
But on the descents it was criminal how I went down, exceeding 100 per hour in some Giro d’Italiarivaling Eduardo Chozas among the cyclists with the best descents of the time.
Pidcock, for the end
I started with an active cyclist and ended with another still in the peloton.
It will be repetitive, but what the Englishman did last year in the Galibier, added to the madness of the Strade Bianche… every time we glimpse a descent, Tom Pidcock has to enter the pools, that is, if he is fresh and comfortable, because in the last Tour, when he burst from among the first, poor thing, he no longer cut back on the descents as he did in the past.
This does not mean that the marked descents of the BTT world champion seem to us to be gallery-worthy and worthy of entering this small and certainly very incomplete list.
2023-12-01 05:11:01
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